Karst topography

Worldwide, there are karst landscapes, the name is derived from Slovenian Karst Karst and Croatian krš ago, the name of the landscape in Croatia, Slovenia and Italy.

  • 2.1 China
  • 2.2 Georgia
  • 2.3 Indonesia
  • 2.4 Iran
  • 2.5 Japan
  • 2.6 Russia ( Asian section)
  • 2.7 Tajikistan
  • 2.8 Turkmenistan
  • 2.9 Turkey
  • 2:10 Vietnam
  • 3.1 Morocco
  • 4.1 Mexico
  • 4.2 USA
  • 4.3 Canada
  • 5.1 Australia
  • 5.2 New Zealand

Europe

Germany

  • Franconian Jura
  • Gypsum karst area around Bad Segeberg, inter alia, Segeberger limestone and cave
  • God's Acre
  • Harz near Bad Grund and Rübeland mainly limestone and on the southern edge of the Harz a karst belt of anhydrite and gypsum karst of Zechsteinsedimente extends ( Rudigsdorfer Switzerland )
  • Hönnetal
  • The southern edge of the Kyffhäuser
  • Paderborn Plateau
  • Swabian Alb ( Merokarst )
  • Stone sea
  • Border of the Thuringian Forest
  • Stubnitzer Horst on Rügen ( wet and Trockendolinen on leached lime, chalk)
  • Karst sandstone of Cretaceous sandstones of the Saxon Switzerland and the Zittau Mountains

Estonia

  • Lahemaa National Park

France

  • Jura ( Merokarst )
  • Vercors
  • Chartreuse
  • Causses
  • Pyrenees
  • Cevennes, partially
  • Mont Ventoux Vaucluse

Greece

  • Ionian Islands (Zakynthos, Kefalonia)
  • North Evia
  • Northeastern Peloponnese (including Stymfalia ( ecosystem ), Feneos, Tripoli plateau, sloth - level Nestani Polje )

Great Britain

Ireland

Italy

  • Italian Limestone Alps
  • South Tyrolean Dolomites
  • Sardinia
  • Trieste Karst
  • Lessinische Alps
  • Apennines

Croatia

  • Dalmatia
  • Lika (predominantly green karst sinkholes with " craters " )
  • Gorski Kotar (green Karst )
  • Kvarner (predominantly green Karst )
  • Islands of Croatia

Montenegro

  • Bay of Kotor ( Drowned karst river valley )
  • Orjen ( Mediterranean hyper-or Holokarst )

Austria

  • Dachstein Mountains
  • Drusenfluh - Sulzfluh ( Rätikon )
  • Dürrenstein
  • Glockner group - Kitzsteinhorn
  • Göllstock
  • God's Acre
  • Graz Palaeozoic
  • Hagengebirge
  • High King
  • High Schwab
  • Hochobir
  • Höllengebirge
  • Gail Valley Alps
  • Grazer Bergland
  • Karawanken
  • Carnic Alps
  • Lofer Steinberg mountains
  • Leogang Mountains
  • Lechquellengebirge
  • Osterhorngruppe
  • Radstadt Tauern
  • Rax
  • Schneeberg
  • Stone sea
  • Tennen Mountains
  • Totes Gebirge
  • Tux Alps
  • Warscheneck

Portugal

  • Maciço Calcário do Algarve Central
  • Maciço Calcário Estremenho

Switzerland

  • Brislach - Allmet
  • Churfirsten - Santis
  • Falknis - Drusenfluh - Sulzfluh ( Rätikongebirge )
  • Hohgant - Schrattenfluh with the seven -Hohgant Cave
  • Sägistal, Axalp - Bättenalp - Giessbach - Axalp
  • Silberen - Bödmeren with the Hoelloch, the longest cave in Europe and the fifth longest cave in the world (as of 2010: 197.9 km )
  • Swiss Jura ( Merokarst )
  • Stockhornkette - Sanetschgebiet
  • Tour d' Aï

Sweden

Slovakia

  • Slovak Karst - of the following caves were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site: Gombasecká Cave ( Cave Gombeseker ) Jasovska Cave ( Cave Jossauer ) Jaskyňa Domica ( Domica Cave) and Ochtinská Aragonite Cave ( Ochtinaer aragonite )
  • Aggtelek Karst (share of Hungarian territory )

Slovenia

  • Carniola ( Kranjska )

Spain

  • El Torcal
  • Picos de Europa
  • Pyrenees
  • Mallorca
  • Sierra Nevada
  • Sierra de Atapuerca
  • Cantabrian Mountains

Czechia

  • Moravian Karst

Ukraine

  • Podolia ( gypsum karst )
  • Bukovina ( gypsum karst )
  • Crimea

Hungary

  • Aggtelek Karst

Asia

China

  • Guilin ( Li River ) ( tower karst, Fengkong and Fengling )
  • Shilin Stone Forest

Georgia

  • Caucasus

Indonesia

  • Sarawak
  • Borneo
  • Celebes
  • Java
  • Sumatra

Iran

  • Zagros Mountains

Japan

  • Akiyoshi Plateau ( Honshu )

Russia ( Asian section)

  • Ural mountains
  • Baikal region
  • Caucasus

Tajikistan

  • Alai Mountains

Turkmenistan

  • Big Balkans

Turkey

Vietnam

  • Halong Bay ( from the sea flooded cone karst )
  • Ninh Binh ( cone karst )

Africa

Morocco

America

  • Bahamas
  • Jamaica ( cockpit karst )
  • Cuba
  • Puerto Rico
  • Guatemala
  • Venezuela
  • Peru

Mexico

USA

  • Pecos Valley - Guadalupe Mountain ( New Mexico) to Carlsbad Caverns and Lechuguilla Cave
  • Kaibab Plateau ( Grand Canyon )
  • Ozark Mountains
  • Indiana
  • Kentucky
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain
  • Florida
  • Black Hills ( Dakota)
  • Appalachian
  • Colorado Plateau
  • North Texas
  • Northwest Texas

Canada

Australasia

Australia

  • Nullarbor Plain

New Zealand

  • Paparoa National Park
  • List (geology)
Segeberger Kalkberg Steinernes Meer Chartreuse Mountains Cévennes Turlough (lake) Apennine Mountains List of islands of Croatia Karawanks Lofer Mountains Salzkammergut Mountains Torcal de Antequera Sierra Nevada (Spain) Caucasus Mountains Sulawesi Alay Mountains Appalachian Mountains Bruce-Peninsula-Nationalpark Paparoa-Nationalpark
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